Did someone say Award Ceremony?!

On the cold evening of November 30, 2016, the students of UAA Learning by Giving proudly presented the grantees their awards in a special occasion celebrating community engagement and generosity. Student ambassadors Mark Phang and Cat Taylor are shown with Keeley Olson, Executive Director of STAR Alaska, and Marcia Howell, Executive Director of the Alaska Injury Prevention Center, respectively.

But wait, there's more!

Here we are shown being interviewed by our professor, Dr. Judith Owens-Manley, director of the Center for Community Engagement and Learning at the University of Alaska Anchorage. This gave us a chance to provide our institution with a better understanding of the value of the opportunities offered to us as students this semester. Indubitably, we found Learning by Giving challenging, rewarding, life-changing, and we wish all the best for future philanthropy students. Oh and one more thing...

 You didn't really think I'd leave you all hanging without a nice group photo, did you?

Lend Me Your Ears!

As the semester comes to its end, we asked Jory Knott a couple of interesting questions to help us understand the significance of what we've been studying. The questions were:

1) Why is it important to study philanthropy?

2) Of all the countless ways one could study philanthropy, what makes the Learning by Giving class unique and effective?

Now, you might wondering... who the heck is Jory Knott?! He's a sharp, generous, supportive classmate, that's who! Now he demonstrates his technology skills by providing us with his answers to the following questions in the form of audio clips! Let's all give Jory our undivided attention...